Violence in Iraq: clashes in Kirkuk attack in Baghdad

Violent clashes broke out on Friday in Kirkuk in Iraq, clashes in the city who oppose Kurdish fighters and Islamic state group activists.

Jihadists have launched early in the morning a series of attacks against positions held by Kurdish peshmerga. There are several people, including a general. By late morning, jihadists stormed a hotel in the city, before the army and peshmerga not regain control ..

Another theater of violence: Baghdad. This is a commercial area of ​​the capital, which was targeted by a double car bombing. Review: twenty dead, all civilians. This attack has not been claimed.

It comes after a series of bombings and shootings that killed more than two dozen deaths in the Iraqi capital and its surroundings.

The country is facing for months an upsurge of violence, linked in particular to the offensive by the militants of the Islamic state group. The jihadists control vast swathes of Iraqi territory.